Game apparatus.



PATENTED JULY 2, 1907.

No. 858,990. I

W. S. KBMPER. GAME APPARATUS.

APPLICATION nun NOV.21,1906.

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WILLIAM S. KEMPER, OF MGKEESPORT, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 2, 1907.

Application filed November 21, 1906. Serial No. 344,369.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAu S. KEMPER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at McKeesport, in the county of Allegheny and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in GameApparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to game apparatus, and its obj ect is to providea simple and inexpensive device for playing a game involving both skilland chance.

The invention consists in a game device of novel construction which willbe fully described hereinafter in connection with the accompanyingdrawing which forms a part of this specification.

1n the drawing, Figure 1 is a view in perspective partly broken away, ofa game apparatus embodying the invention, and Fig. 2 is a centralvertical section of the same.

The device comprisesa box of rectangular form consisting of a rear wall1, a front wall 2, sides 3, and a top 4.

The front 2 is formed along its lower edge with a plurality ofarchshaped openings 5, and from the rear wall 1, project pins 6,arranged in rows and adapted to defloct a marble and direct it throughone of the openings 5.

Secured to the lower end of the box is a trough 7, provided with aseries of partitions S dividing the trough into compartments 9corresponding in number to the openings 5, and adapted to receive amarble through said openings.

The front 2 of the box is formed with an opening 10 to receive a funnel11, the latter being secured by brackets 12 or other suitable fasteningmeans.

The several openings 5 in the front of the box are numbered to indicatethe value of the marbles issuing therefrom.

The utility of the device constructed as thus described, Will be readilyunderstood. Two or more players may engage in the game. The first effortof the player will be to shoot a marble into the funnel. After this isaccomplished the marble drops between the pins and passes through one ofthe openings 5 and, into one of the compartments 9. The numbercorresponding to the compartment into which the player s marble dropsrepresents the players score, and the aggregate count after apredetermined number of plays fixes the-score of the player.

The shooting of the marbles into the funnel with the thumb and fingersinvolves more or less skill and accuracy an d the course of the marbleafter it enters the box depends upon chance.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is':-

1. In a game apparatus, the combination with a box having pinsprojecting from its rear wall, and a front wall formed with openings inits lower portion, of a re ceptacle at the base of the box in front ofsaid openings, and an opening in the upper portion of the front wall ofthe box for the insertion of a marble.

2. In a game apparatus, the combination with a box' having pinsprojecting from its rear Wall, and a front wall formed with a series ofopenings at its base, of a trough projecting from the bottom of the boxin front or said openings, and divided by vertical partitions intocompartments corresponding in number to the openings, and a funnelfitting an opening formed in the upper portion of the front wall of thebox.

2. In a game apparatus, the combination with a box having rows of pinsprojecting from its rear wall, and a front wall formed along its loweredge with a series of numbered openings, of a trough arranged in frontof said openings and divided into separate compartments, and a funnelfitting an opening formed in the front wall of the box centrally of itswidth and near its upper edge.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the pres ence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAMS. KEMPER.

Witnesses NICHOLAS H. MAssUNG,

CHARLES D. KonHLnR.

